The General Chiropractic Council (Registration During Transitional Period) Rules Order of Council 1999

Required undertaking

7.—(1) The additional training and experience which the Registrar may specify in respect of the required undertaking to be given by an applicant for conditional registration is training and experience in such of the matters set out in Rule 6(2) as, in the opinion of the Registrar (having consulted the Education Committee or a sub-committee of the Education Committee in such cases as the Registrar considers appropriate), are necessary to enable the applicant to meet the required standard of proficiency.

(2) In considering whether it is necessary for an applicant to undertake additional training or to acquire additional experience, the Registrar may have regard to any interviews with the applicant and any visits to any place where the applicant practises chiropractic (including any interviews and visits made under Rule 4(6)), any assessment of clinical competence of the applicant, and any other matter which appears to the Registrar to be relevant.

(3) The conditions with which the Registrar may require an applicant to undertake to comply in the required undertaking are–

(a) a condition that the applicant passes the test of competence referred to in paragraph (4); and

(b) a condition that, for such period as may be specified by the Registrar (whether by reference to the passing of such a test of competence or otherwise), the applicant refrains from carrying out any treatment or technique in respect of which the applicant has undertaken to complete additional training or acquire additional experience except in so far as such treatment or technique is administered in the course of that training or acquisition of that experience as specified by the Registrar pursuant to paragraph (1).

(4) The test of competence referred to in paragraph (3)(a) is a test of competence in such of the matters set out in Rule 6(2) as are those in respect of which the applicant has undertaken to complete additional training or acquire additional experience.